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pastermil, in What has been the best thing that has happened to you so far?

I got engaged early last year, planned our wedding toward the end of the year. In between, I got a new job with salary more than twice of my previous job.

Now I am happily married, and after a raise my current salary is almost triple my previous job. I’m still trying to convince my former colleagues (just the cool ones) to also find new jobs.

morphballganon,

How’d you make such a jump in salary?

pastermil,

I got lucky and was able to get in touch with a foreign company.

h_ramus, (edited ) in Should I wait for the "Snyder cut" (director's cut) of Rebel Moon?

It had more slow motion scenes than an Indian action movie. Shallow and cliché dialogue ripping off from the star wars universe. Snyder was plastered all over the credits. If this isn’t his cut then take the damn name off the credits. No matter how you cut it it’ll have the same actors, storyline, dialogue depth and in-your-face visuals. Snyder really is a subtle and sophisticated guy.

robdor, in What is a nifty little feature modern gadgets have lost?

I miss buttons. This message was brought to you by fat thumbs.

Reverendender, (edited )
clutch,

That is exactly the clip I was hoping it would be.

robdor,

Jebus, Simpsons really have done everything.

lagomorphlecture,

I wish there were smart phones with those little slide out keyboards like on some older phones, like a blackberry keyboard but slide out so it’s hidden unless you are actively wanting use it. And forward, back, play buttons for music and podcasts without having to eff around with the screen and unlocking and stuff.

crsu, in What is a nifty little feature modern gadgets have lost?

What modern gadgets? All that’s left are cell phone tracking devices

RBWells, in What is your earliest memory?

I remember my first brother coming home after being born. My mom said I could go in the room and look in the crib but not to say anything, he was sleeping. I leaned down and said his name - I was one and a half years old. I know this is a real memory as nobody was there, nobody told me this happened.

Then nothing I remember until my 3rd birthday, I remember the depressing zoo birthday, and then remember learning to read (sort of- I was 3 and memorized a short book, claimed I could read, but after that just could read, pretty much anything - so I don’t remember the actual learning, however it happened, just that book, pretending to read it and that felt like it magically unlocked all books, it was remarkable and memorable).

That’s about all my memories until 5 years old, but after 5 it’s still just a few memories, even now I’d say just a few memories per year just a whole lot more years.

Sprokes, in What is a nifty little feature modern gadgets have lost?

Recent phone do not have notification light? I am still using my phone from 2019 and it has it.

justlookingfordragon, in What do the symbols next to usernames mean on Lemmy?
@justlookingfordragon@lemmy.world avatar

You can add emojis and special characters to your regular username, like the wolf icon in my displayed name. If that’s what you meant, then those don’t need to have a meaning.

If you still mean something else, a screenshot would be nice. You can blur the username of the screenshotted person if you’re feeling more comfortable that way. ;)

bartolomeo,
@bartolomeo@suppo.fi avatar

Thanks Wolf Link. The icon I was referring to is attached to my post (a red person with a red slash across it) and it is located between the user’s avatar and the user name. Your wolf is located to the right of your username, so the icon I’m referring to is on the left of the username.

justlookingfordragon,
@justlookingfordragon@lemmy.world avatar

Your wolf is located to the right of your username, so the icon I’m referring to is on the left of the username

You can add emojis anywhere, so it doesn’t really matter where exactly it is. Just to demonstrate it; I temporarily added a checkmark and an exclamation mark to my username ;)

The symbol you posted however… i’ve not seen that on the site so far. Does Jerboa have custom icons maybe?

GCanuck,

I believe you, but I don’t see any emojis in your name or others. Sometimes I see a little baby emoji, but that’s it.

But then I’m using the Voyager client so it might just be me.

justlookingfordragon,
@justlookingfordragon@lemmy.world avatar

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f40a40fb-6e00-4405-978c-25426c65cc14.png

That’s what it looks like in the Firefox browser on desktop. If it’s different for you, then it is very likely the app, yes.

GCanuck, (edited )

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/6f4c2460-cc28-4d28-8fae-80a2eaba43f3.png

lol. Your name in Voyager as I see it is “justlookingfordragon”.

I’m sure that won’t be a cause of confusion at all.

justlookingfordragon,
@justlookingfordragon@lemmy.world avatar

Oh, that’s the account name, not the display name ^^° but interesting to see how extremely different it all looks between apps.

tja,
@tja@sh.itjust.works avatar

There is a difference between the display name (Wolf Link) and the handle (@justlookingfordragon ) the display name is initially, by default, the first part of the handle, as it is with your account. But you can change it. If you are linking the user, you have to use the handle, which is unique.

Voyager seems to ignore the display name and just displays the first part of the handle on its own. Which is indeed kind of confusing.

I_Fart_Glitter,

I’m in the Firefox browser on desktop and it looks like this:
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5e6a366c-4ece-4e55-8cf2-964845211fe3.png

willya, in What do the symbols next to usernames mean on Lemmy?
@willya@lemmyf.uk avatar

The one you attached means that they’re banned.

LemmyKnowsBest,

If theyre banned, how are they participating?

justlookingfordragon,
@justlookingfordragon@lemmy.world avatar

It might be a temporary ban - those do not retroactively remove comments of the person in question IIRC.

willya,
@willya@lemmyf.uk avatar

Who? They haven’t even gave us a user@instance.

bartolomeo,
@bartolomeo@suppo.fi avatar

Banned from the server where their comment with that icon appears?

I’m still trying to grasp federation; sorry if it’s a stupid question.

willya, (edited )
@willya@lemmyf.uk avatar

Banned from your instance. What user are you looking at? If they’re banned on their home instance it federates everywhere as far as I know.

Restaldt, in What is a nifty little feature modern gadgets have lost?

Those tiny solar cells calculators used to have

Cornpop, in What is a nifty little feature modern gadgets have lost?

IR blaster in phones

Centaur,

Xiaomi phones have IR blasters on new models. Good thing when you lose remote somewhere between wall and sofa 😊

Katzelle3,

If you are looking for something to set up at home then you can buy one of those hockey puck looking things. They connect to Wi-Fi and you can teach them a set of IR commands that they can repeat.

Dark_Arc, in US residents: What big domestic policy improvements have the american people won from congress in the last 30 years?
@Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg avatar

The Infrastructure Bill, the CHIPS Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act are huge examples from the Biden presidency.

From those we’re getting tons of bridges fixed, Internet upgrades, public transit improvements, research funded for climate change (including locally, Akron received finding for researching alternative polymers that don’t rely on oil), domestic security improvements from domestic chip manufacturing, port and airport upgrades, funding to increase the size of EV charging networks, power grid upgrades to help with all of that, labor got a huge boon as all of these bills encourage or require domestic manufacturing, medicare drug negotiation, we’re replacing ALL the lead pipes in public water supply lines, more fixes to tax cheats from corporations and rich people, and funds to cleanup superfund sites.

People really don’t realize how much Biden has gotten done; especially when compared to other recent presidents … like Mr. Build A Wall.

The affordable care act while controversial was also very big as you said.

cabron_offsets, in What hobby do you have that no one else in your family shares?

Washing dishes

themurphy,

Cool, tell me more about this thrilling hobby of yours.

Otakat,

What does a washing dishes hobby entail? Do you have like a personal best or a preferred strategy?

paultimate14, in What is a nifty little feature modern gadgets have lost?

A lot of what I’m seeing here is included on my Sony Xperia.

Headphone jack, notification light, SD card.

I do miss having a replaceable battery like my older LG phones had and stereo fromt-firing speakers like my HTC One M8.

Emi621,

Replaceable battery is gonna be mandatory for phones in the future so that’s good.

skai,

I love the Sony phones. If they sold the Xperia 5 V in my market (or even if the global version was compatible with my carrier’s G5 bands . . . ) I would probably buy it in a second. They seem to be deliberately betting on only releasing the 1 V in some wealthier markets though (likely because the 5 V would undercut demand) – but I refuse to spend 1 V prices with only a couple years of guaranteed updates.

Sony phones though are by far my favourite on the market these days, and it’s a shame that they aren’t more popular (or have enough developer interest to have LineageOS support).

original_reader,

This is why I still buy Sony. If they don’t change this, plus add replaceable batteries, which they have to… most is good.

Still miss FM radio, though.

And double tap to wake.

waz, in What hobby do you have that no one else in your family shares?

RC cars, amateur radio, sailing, 3d printing, cooking/baking, sewing, camping…probably more.

I’d say my kid has a mild interest in some of these, but probably wouldn’t if I wasn’t also doing it. My wife and I mostly just watch tv together.

umulu,
@umulu@lemmy.world avatar

Your wife doesn’t try to get started any of those activities?

waz,

She’s willing to go camping and will ask me to 3d print stuff for her, but doesn’t really have much interest in being more involved in that.

Generally speaking, she is supportive of all me doing all of these hobbies, just not interested herself.

umulu,
@umulu@lemmy.world avatar

Interesting. Same with me.

I don’t think I could live without any hobbies

Czarb, in What is a nifty little feature modern gadgets have lost?

Headphone jack. Next to my bed is the one good Bluetooth headset, the two crappy backup sets for when it is charging, and the gigantic earmuff yardwork set for when the good one is still charging and the 2 shit ones have already died.

Blue_Morpho,

Just buy a dongle and you can use regular headphones.

ooterness,

Counterpoint: Put it inside the phone, where it belongs.

Aux,

Fun fact - mobile phones didn’t have 3.5mm jacks until very recent times.

Blue_Morpho,

Does it actually belong in the phone? Putting the adc chip outside the phone gives the opportunity to upgrade your sound rather than depend on what the manufacturer bundled or even screwed up. (Nexus phones were notorious for bad headphone output.)

RampantParanoia2365,

Every single phone I’ve owned dongles stop working eventually while charging still works fine.

Katzelle3,

Get the Fiio BTR5. It costs about $100 and has Quad-DAC from ESS just like one used in flagship LG phones. It can switch between Bluetooth and USB inputs, so you can use standard headphones to do phone calls wirelessly for example.

corsicanguppy,

Just buy a dongle

Soooo sick of this “let them eat cake” bullshit.

theUnlikely,

That’s gotta be the slowest charging imaginable. 0.00001 Watts?

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